Word: lazzaroni
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...robotmakers answer. But by whom, and for what? Almost 20 years ago, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano portrayed a future society in which the elite few run the machines while the unemployable majority subsists on handouts in resentful idleness. "It's an enormous problem," concedes Luigi Lazzaroni, president of the Italian firm that makes the Pragma robot. "Many will have to learn how to work differently. The schools, the industrial firms and the government must cooperate to ensure that the workers are able to fit the requirements of industry...
...itself slowly to a terrific climax of violence. When the Germans occupy Naples, nobody dreams of rebellion. When they round up the labor battalions, everybody thinks only of escape. But when they cannot escape, the men of Naples instantly decide that they would rather fight than work: the lazy lazzaroni rise to defend their ancient tradition of indolence. On Sept. 27, grim little groups break out their hidden weapons and converge on German units. A substantial enemy force is besieged in a soccer stadium. German columns rush to its relief. But the vermin of the Vomero pile barricades in their...
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